Job Summary:

Digital Ledger Technology (DLT) & Digital Assets (DA) are the strategic client access platforms for CIB clients to transact with the Bank. 

The Digital Assets Platform (DAP) Technology Solution Architect will play a key architectural leadership role within the DLT Hive, responsible for defining, governing, and guiding end-to-end technology solutions across Digital Asset, Tokenization, Payments, and Financial Market (FM) use cases. The role acts as a bridge between CIB enterprise architecture and DAP delivery squads.

The role demands that the person works as a trusted business partner to manage multiple programs & projects within this domain.  Candidate will need to create and nurture relations with business partners, technology heads, operations, group & country product, risk governance and planning support & services.  A strong technology acumen is required to create innovative solutions for the Bank’s digital banking space.

Key Responsibilities:

Strategy

• As a key member of the Digital Asset Platform (DAP) Technology Architecture team, define and drive the architecture strategy and technology roadmap for DLT and Digital Assets platforms, ensuring alignment with the broader Business Platforms and CIB Enterprise Architecture roadmap.
• Advocate and communicate the global digital architecture vision and strategy across business, technology, and architecture stakeholders, ensuring consistent adoption of standards, patterns, and principles.
• Articulate the value of “Digital” and embed it into the target architecture and solution design, driving outcomes across:
  • revenue enablement (new digital asset products, tokenization use cases)
  • cost efficiency (platform reuse, standardization)
  • superior client experience (scalable, API-first, real-time platforms)
• Maintain a deep understanding of external industry and peer bank architecture trends, including:
  • Digital Assets and tokenization platforms
  • Smart contracts and blockchain infrastructure
  • Payments and Financial Markets innovation
    and assess their impact on the bank’s architecture strategy and innovation roadmap.

• Build and foster an architecture and engineering excellence culture by promoting:
  • system thinking and platform-first mindset
  • reusable architecture patterns and design standards
  • principles of simplicity, scalability, resiliency, and clean design
• Drive a modern approach to architecture-led engineering excellence, enabling:
  • modular, API-first and event-driven architectures
  • cloud-native and scalable design patterns
  • consistent architecture governance and design quality
    while promoting thought leadership and upskilling across cloud, architecture, APIs, and emerging Digital Asset technologies.
• Enable and strengthen a scalable, squad-based operating model by:
  • defining reference architectures and guardrails for squads
  • ensuring design consistency across multiple DAP initiatives
  • supporting agile delivery through architecture governance and oversight rather than centralized control

• Define and govern end-to-end solution architecture across Digital Asset platforms including tokenization, custody, blockchain, APIs, and integration layers.
• Translate business requirements into scalable, secure, and compliant technology designs, aligned with enterprise architecture and regulatory standards.
• Ensure strong alignment with CIB enterprise architecture, driving reuse of shared capabilities (API, cloud, IAM) and consistency across platforms.
• Provide architecture oversight across multiple squads and initiatives, ensuring design quality, scalability, and adherence to standards.
• Lead and guide teams on architecture patterns, cloud-native design, and blockchain solutions, resolving complex technical challenges.

Business

• Provide technical architecture leadership for Digital Assets and DLT solutions aligned to enterprise standards and business outcomes.
• Define and govern end-to-end solution architectures across tokenization, custody, blockchain, and API-led platforms.
• Ensure security, scalability, and regulatory compliance of all Digital Asset Platform solutions.
• Act as a trusted advisor to business, CPOs, and COO partners, driving initiatives from investment through solutioning and implementation.
• Lead architecture reviews and design governance to ensure solution quality, consistency, and reuse.
• Drive thought leadership and innovation across Digital Assets, payments, and financial markets ecosystems.
• Collaborate across squads and functions to deliver scalable, high-quality, and cost-efficient technology solutions.
• Enable a platform-first, API-driven architecture ecosystem to support business growth and digital transformation.

Processes    

• Drive and communicate architecture standards, governance frameworks, and best practices to ensure solution quality, data integrity, security, and compliance across all DAP initiatives.
• Ensure adherence to the Bank’s Technology System Delivery Framework, embedding architecture governance across design, build, and delivery lifecycles.
• Participate as a senior architecture reviewer in change and release governance forums, ensuring all solutions meet enterprise design, risk, and compliance standards.
• Embed the Group’s values, code of conduct, and regulatory standards within architecture designs and across delivery teams.
• Establish strong architecture governance and stakeholder engagement models, ensuring alignment across internal teams and external partners.
• Enable effective mobilisation and execution of solution architectures in collaboration with business, engineering squads, and external vendors, ensuring seamless delivery and integration.

Governance

• Click here to enter text.Ensure strong awareness and alignment with the Bank’s regulatory, architecture, and data governance frameworks, embedding compliant-by-design principles across all solution architectures for client-facing Digital Asset platforms.
• Drive and uphold robust architecture governance and escalation practices, ensuring timely identification, mitigation, and resolution of risk, compliance, and design issues while fostering a culture of transparency, accountability, and regulatory adherence.

Regulatory & Business Conduct

• Demonstrate exemplary conduct by adhering to the Group’s Values, Code of Conduct, and regulatory standards, ensuring all solution architectures comply with applicable laws, policies, and governance frameworks.
• Take personal accountability to embed strong conduct, risk awareness, and compliance practices within architecture decisions, proactively identifying, escalating, and resolving risk, conduct, and regulatory issues.

Key Stakeholders

• DCDA Product Management Team Members
• FM Product Management Team Members
• CIB T&I Management Team Members
• CIB Platforms Risk & Infrastructure teams
• CIB CISO and security teams
• Technology Interface Teams          

Other Responsibilities

• Attend and contribute to the  the design council for Digital Assets Platforms technology
• Represent DAP - CIB Platforms in design reviews of other tech partners  

Skills and Experience:

• 10+ years of experience in banking / financial services technology, with strong exposure to Digital Assets, DLT, Payments, or Financial Markets platforms.
• Proven ability to translate business strategy into target architecture, solution designs, and technology roadmaps aligned to enterprise architecture standards.
• Strong understanding of secure architecture principles including IAM, MFA, encryption, API security, and regulatory controls for client-facing platforms.
• Demonstrated experience in leading complex architecture initiatives across multiple teams, stakeholders, and technology domains.
• Strategic mindset with strong problem-solving ability, attention to detail, and ability to operate in fast-evolving, high-impact environments

Technical Competencies:

• Strong expertise in end-to-end solution architecture and technology engineering, with the ability to design scalable, secure, and resilient Digital Asset platforms.
• Deep understanding of cloud-native, API-first, and DevOps-enabled architectures, including infrastructure, CI/CD, and platform engineering principles.
• Proficiency in modern architecture patterns, frameworks, and integration models (microservices, event-driven, distributed systems).
• Strong knowledge of blockchain, distributed ledger technologies, smart contracts, and tokenization flows, including custody and settlement use cases.
• Solid understanding of cryptography concepts, blockchain protocols, and security principles for enterprise-grade financial platforms.
• Familiarity with consensus mechanisms, P2P networks, staking, and emerging technologies such as privacy-enhancing techniques (e.g., ZKP).
• Experience in solution governance, incident analysis, and problem resolution, ensuring system stability, scalability, and compliance.
• Strong stakeholder management, communication, and analytical skills, with deep domain knowledge in financial services, payments, or digital assets ecosystems.
• Exposure to Stablecoins / Tokenized products / cross border payments with large global banks
• Strong understanding of custody, Wallet infrastructure
• Exposure to multi-language technology stacks (e.g., Solidity, DAML, Java, Node.js, Go, Python) with sufficient hands-on capability to guide design and code quality.

About Standard Chartered

We're an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 170 years, we've worked to make a positive difference for our clients, communities, and each other. We question the status quo, love a challenge and enjoy finding new opportunities to grow and do better than before. If you're looking for a career with purpose and you want to work for a bank making a difference, we want to hear from you. You can count on us to celebrate your unique talents and we can't wait to see the talents you can bring us.

Our purpose, to drive commerce and prosperity through our unique diversity, together with our brand promise, to be here for good are achieved by how we each live our valued behaviours. When you work with us, you'll see how we value difference and advocate inclusion.

Together we:

• Do the right thing and are assertive, challenge one another, and live with integrity, while putting the client at the heart of what we do
• Never settle, continuously striving to improve and innovate, keeping things simple and learning from doing well, and not so well
• Are better together, we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term

What we offer

In line with our Fair Pay Charter, we offer a competitive salary and benefits to support your mental, physical, financial and social wellbeing.

• Core bank funding for retirement savings, medical and life insurance, with flexible and voluntary benefits available in some locations.
• Time-off including annual leave, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 months maximum) and volunteering leave (3 days), along with minimum global standards for annual and public holiday, which is combined to 30 days minimum.
• Flexible working options based around home and office locations, with flexible working patterns.
• Proactive wellbeing support through Unmind, a market-leading digital wellbeing platform, development courses for resilience and other human skills, global Employee Assistance Programme, sick leave, mental health first-aiders and all sorts of self-help toolkits
• A continuous learning culture to support your growth, with opportunities to reskill and upskill and access to physical, virtual and digital learning.
• Being part of an inclusive and values driven organisation, one that embraces and celebrates our unique diversity, across our teams, business functions and geographies - everyone feels respected and can realise their full potential.